File No. 819.74/4.

The Acting Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Navy.

Sir: [After referring to the Navy Department’s letters of December 11 and 13, and quoting the Minister’s telegram of December 21, the letter continues:]

The Department would be glad to have you give it some expression as to an arrangement that might be made by the Navy Department to handle all wireless messages to and from the Republic of Panama.

I have [etc.]

Huntington Wilson.